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"A warning from Mandrake?" The Stokeham Herald is threatened with closure from a 'mystery buyer'. Trench has a deadline of only days to discover the truth. Is it a coincidence that former acquaintance, Sade Thorn now fronts Castle Holdings? Is the head of the other Stokeham leasing...

   First-ever Armchair Detective 'musical'!    Down the avenues and alleyways...    A highly addictive new drug has hit Downtown.   To investigate, Trench must infiltrate the centre of the dangerous, drug-fuelled avenues and alleyways of Downtown Stokeham.   What is this new...

A chance meeting with a mysterious, elderly man... Featuring all six plays of the absorbing, yet fun mystery series that has taken the e-reading world by storm. Also, exclusive 'Boxed Set' Extras including: Interview with the man behind the armchair Deleted scenes Easter egg Favourite quotes - and more!

A furtive factory; a punctual noisy neighbour; a recursive problem and a plot of creeping retribution from the 'Old Days'...   Join Trench and Old Tom for more mystery and mayhem in all four Plays of Series Two.   Plus bonus feature, covering the characterisation of Debsy.

A curious Christmas cuckoo; a clockwork mystery; a capital investigation and a suspiciously helpful Mandrake... Be the armchair detective alongside Trench and Old Tom in four more cosy mysteries. Plus Extras: Play of the Month Guide & Planning The Armchair Detective

Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) called himself "an Aeolian harp strung to every wind of heaven." His first volume of poems, entitled Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, was published in 1786. An immediate success, it established Burns's poetic reputation, which has grown over two centuries...

Cruel Britannia: Sarah Kane’s Postmodern Traumatics examines four plays by British playwright Sarah Kane (1971–1999), all written between 1995 and 1999 within the context of the «Cool Britannia», or «In-Yer-Face» London theatre movement of the 1990s. Kane’s plays were notorious for their...

After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke from the strict morality of puritan rule and in which elegance and wit became the chief virtues. Irreverent, licentious and cynical, the three plays collected here hold up...

When it was first published in 1962, Anger and After was the first comprehensive study of the dramatic movement which began in 1956 with the staging of John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger and has since brought forward such dramatists as Brendan Behan, Harold Pinter, N. F. Simpson, John Arden and Arnold...

"His name is Percy Bysshe Shelley, and he is the author of a poetical work entitled Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude." With these words, the radical journalist and poet Leigh Hunt announced his discovery in 1816 of an extraordinary talent within "a new school of poetry rising of late." The...

A celebration of a great English heroine, Anne Boleyn dramatises the life and legacy of Henry VIII's notorious second wife, who helped change the course of the nation's history. Premiered at Shakespeare's Globe in 2010. Best New Play, Whatsonstage.com Awards Traditionally seen as either...

A fascinating portrait of Harold Macmillan in an epic play about the decline of British fortunes in the middle of the twentieth century. Set against a back-drop of fading Empire, war, the Suez crisis, vintage champagne, adultery and vicious Tory politics at the Ritz, Never So Good paints the...

A gripping new version of Strindberg's masterly, darkly hilarious depiction of the struggles and strains of marriage. Meet Edgar and Alice. Married for over thirty years, theirs is a relationship of explosive mutual loathing. Strindberg's tale paints a compulsive and bitterly funny portrait...

A Northern British coastal town. Three young men are coming home from war. Their stories, set at different times over a hundred years, are beautifully interwoven in Anna Jordan's The Unreturning, a play that explores the profound effect that war has on young people’s lives, and asks – what...